>> They _can_ be repaired...some of the time. > That's totally irrellevant.
I don't think so, not when I'm replying to a claim otherwise. > Possibilities other than zero or one are not useful in manual pages, Then we can throw away fsck, because there is always _some_ chance the filesystem will be irreparable. Memory, CPUs, disks, and the transports between them do fail, occasionally transiently. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B